Change purse and bill fold



Feb. 5 1924.

v 1,4839% E. SPERLING CHANGE PURSE AND BILL FOLD Filed Jan. 26 1923 j yi.

A TTOR/VEVS Patented Feb. 5, 192 4.

D STATES EDWARD SPERLING,

OF NEW YORK, Y.

CHANGE PURSE AND BILL FOLD.

Application filed January 26, 1923. Serial No. 615,018.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD SIERLING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Chang Purse and Bill Fold, of which ,the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has relation to containers for money and has particular reference to an improvement in bill folds.

The invention broadly contemplates abill fold which is provided with means for accommodating the usual accumulation of small change such as silver, nickels, or coppers, in addition to the paper money.

' One of the principal objects of the present invention is to construct a bill fold with a pocket for the reception of change, which pocket will add but slightly to the usual bulk of the bill fold and the mouth of which pocket will be closed by the usual flap which holds the bill fold in its closed condition.

As a further object the invention contemplates a combined change purse and bill fold which is extremely simple in its construction, and which is inexpensive o manufacture and produce.

With the above recited and other objects in view, the invention resides in thenovel construction set forth in the following specification, particularly pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, it being understood that the right is reserved to embodiments other than those actually illustrated herein to the full extent indicated by the general meaning of the terms in which the claim is expressed.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the bill fold in completely folded condition.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same partially opened.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view therethrough taken approximately on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view taken approximately 011 the line 44t of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken approximately on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing by characters of reference, the bill fold consists of a strip projecting from the opposite side edge. The

flaps 11 and 12 are approximately of an area equal to one quarter of the area of the bill. At one extremity, preferably the extremity which is provided with the single side flap 11, the bill fold is provided with a fastening flap 1?) which is provided with the socket element 14 of a snap fastener. Adjacent the opposite end on the outer face of the strip 10 the head element 15 of a snap fastener is provided whereby the bill fold when the. element 14 is engaged with the element 15, is maintained in its closed condition. It is of course understood that the strip 10 is folded double along a transverse medial line as is the usual custom with these forms of bill folds.

The pocket which constitutes the invention consists of a strip of material 16 of a width approximately equal to the width of the strip 10 and of any desired length, which pocket is stitched by a line of stitching 17 running parallel to its side edges and one of its ends. The open end or mouth 18 is disposed adjacent the end provided with the closure flap 13 whereby said closure flap will also constitute a means for closing the mouth or open end 18 of the pocket.

Under this arrangement and construction it will be observed that a convenient container is provided for the carrying of change and bills to avoid the carrying of change loosely in the pocket of the clothing and eliminate the wearing out of the clothing pocket. It will be further observed that to gain access to the pocket 16, it is unnecessary for the user to open up the bill fold, other than the closure flap 13 due to the fact that the mouth 18 of the pocket is located adja cent the extremity or end which carries the closure flap.

I claim:'

The combination with a bill fold consisting of a strip of material, a pair of inwardly foldable flaps at the opposite side edges of one end, an inwardly foldable flap at one side of the other end, an inwardly foldable end flap at the latter end, said strip being medially foldable to dispose the side flaps in confronting relation, and interengage- 5 able means provided respectively on the end flap and the outer side of the opposite end of the bill fold for retaining the same in folded condition, of a change pocket arranged to lie parallel and under the single inwardly foldable side flap, said change pocket having its mouth disposed adjacent the end flap whereby said end flap also constitutes a closure for the pocket.

EDWARD SPERLING. 

